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Example 34-137
I
pañá
torsadi i
dá
si kamarada
ku yel
na moŋ.
I
3sg
.
sbj
ø
pfv
pañá
take
torsadi
machete
i
3sg
.
sbj
ø
pfv
dá
give
si
poss
.
3sg
kamarada
friend
ku
with
yel
3sg
.
indp
na
in
moŋ.
hand
He took the machete and hit his friend in the hand with it.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Casamancese Creole
by
Noël Bernard Biagui
and
Nicolas Quint
cite
Datapoints:
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Instrument of the second verb, with resumptive pronoun
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